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From: Gaetano Mendola <[email protected]>
To: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [pgsql-www] pg_autovacuum is nice ... but ...
Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2004 13:00:56 +0100
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Tom Lane wrote:
 > "Marc G. Fournier" <[email protected]> writes:
 >
 >>Moved to -hackers where this belongs :)
 >
 >
 >>On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Justin Clift wrote:
 >>
 >>>Would making max_fsm_relations and max_fsm_pages dynamically update
 >>>themselves whilst PostgreSQL runs be useful?
 >
 >
 > Possibly, but it isn't happening in the foreseeable future, for the same
 > reason that we don't auto-update shared_buffers and the other shared
 > memory sizing parameters: we can't resize shared memory on the fly.

Right but we can create a new segment and use it too. I don't know how
these segments are used but I used to do it in the past, of course you have
to create a memory manager that handle not ccntinuous segments.
Of course this only if the effort to do it can justify the man power working
on it.



Regards
Gaetano Mendola

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